Using Blends to Build Language Art Skills: A Workbook for Grades 1-2 - Paperback

by Mark Trevor (Author)

This full-size (8 1/2" x 11") workbook is reproducible and consumable. It contains nearly 60 pages of material and exercises suitable for any beginning or early reader, as well as homeschoolers, remedial students, and English Language Learners (ELLs). Created by a veteran Language Arts teacher with over 25 years of experience, it is designed to improve a variety of Language Arts skills, including phonics, spelling, rhyme, vocabulary, pronunciation, comprehension and writing. This workbook is a perfect resource for teachers, tutors, and parents who wish to develop and strengthen the Language Arts skills of their children/students. The exercises can be used to supplement regular Language Arts lessons, or for homework, practice, or reinforcement during school breaks and vacations.

Author Biography

Mark Trevor has been a Language Arts teacher for over 25 years. During that time he has taught and tutored students of all ages and backgrounds: pre-school, elementary, middle, and high school students, as well as adults. Over the course of his career, he has worked in public, private, and alternative schools. He holds a B.A. in English Literature from Elmira College and a master's degree in Education: Secondary English from S.U.N.Y. Brockport. He is certified in Language Arts, Reading, and English as a Second Language (ESL). He has also helped develop curricula for two different public school systems. He began his teaching career in upstate New York, before relocating to Raleigh, NC in 1993. For the past ten years, he has taught ESL in the Wake County Public School System.